What do you think?
Its okay to have a train set thats where i started out but its get boring after a while so thats when your mind set comes in to play
Who would have to ask?
A model railroad is only a trainset if there is no imagination involved. People with no particular love for railroads can look at a wonderful piece of railroad modeling and say [I actually heard this at Chicago’s M.S.I.] “that’s some train set.”
No Sir, ot be a railroad modeller takes mindset! Have fun.
A simple figure 8, on a sheet of plywood with roll out grass paper, styrofoam “mountiain tunnels” and “plasticville” structures DO a railroad empire make.
Another is Tinplate layouts, dont look anywhere realistic, but who cares! They are definitly “model railroaders”.
It’s a model railroad if it is off the floor and you don’t have to put away the track, loco, cars etc when you’re finished running it.
Enjoy
Paul
there are no lyrics that say… I’ve been workin’ on the “train set”; but with a bit of creativity the song could become… I’ve been workin’ on the (model) railroad - then again, that may be a given.
I’m learning that the local model railroad club doesn’t even refer to train sets or layouts — it’s all in the TRAINing.
I suppose it’s in the mind set, and a little bit in quality. When you start buying Athearn and better quality cars, it’s becomming a railroad…
My family still seems to think of it as “a train set” when it really progressed much past those old “life-like” things with horn-hook couplers. (They should be banned!!!)
What do you think?
Its okay to have a train set thats where i started out but its get boring after a while so thats when your mind set comes in to play
Who would have to ask?
A model railroad is only a trainset if there is no imagination involved. People with no particular love for railroads can look at a wonderful piece of railroad modeling and say [I actually heard this at Chicago’s M.S.I.] “that’s some train set.”
No Sir, ot be a railroad modeller takes mindset! Have fun.
A simple figure 8, on a sheet of plywood with roll out grass paper, styrofoam “mountiain tunnels” and “plasticville” structures DO a railroad empire make.
Another is Tinplate layouts, dont look anywhere realistic, but who cares! They are definitly “model railroaders”.
It’s a model railroad if it is off the floor and you don’t have to put away the track, loco, cars etc when you’re finished running it.
Enjoy
Paul
there are no lyrics that say… I’ve been workin’ on the “train set”; but with a bit of creativity the song could become… I’ve been workin’ on the (model) railroad - then again, that may be a given.
I’m learning that the local model railroad club doesn’t even refer to train sets or layouts — it’s all in the TRAINing.
I suppose it’s in the mind set, and a little bit in quality. When you start buying Athearn and better quality cars, it’s becomming a railroad…
My family still seems to think of it as “a train set” when it really progressed much past those old “life-like” things with horn-hook couplers. (They should be banned!!!)